Over these past ten years working with Cappellini, Nendo has experimented with a variety of materials, always minimising them to make simple designs: for example, the Thin Black table, the Island tables, and the Drop bookshelf in metal, the solid wood tables in the Peg collection, and the soft upholstered collection of Peg chairs and sofas.
In Japanese, Nendo means “modelling clay”. By adopting this name the design studio implicates the same flexibility, creative power and surprising childlike simplicity. Oki Sato, a native of Toronto, Canada, graduated in architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2002. The same year he founded Nendo with fifteen colleagues who he met during the lectures. Together, they developed their design philosophy which was exemplified in their first performance “Streeterior”, presented in Tokyo and Milan in 2003. Nendo’s creations are exhibited in the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world.
22–31 January 2015
Nendo
Cappellini showroom
boulevard Saint Germain 242 bis, Paris